I Think Stacey is Going to Like This One

If you check my 365project you already know but a week ago I got out my apron to do some cleaning in the kitchen. Lorelai came up to me and asked, "baby's apron mama?"

I told her sorry but I needed to wear the apron because I had a lot of splashing cleaning to do. She was soooo said. You'd have thought I bit her. she was laying on the floor crying out big crocodile tears when Brett came in and said he'd take her with him to Home Depot to distract her from her misery. When he got home he told me that she tattled on me the entire car ride. Poor sad baby.

So on Monday I got some fabric and Tuesday I scoured the internet for a free downloadable pattern and I found perfection! Wednesday I whipped up this little beauty and Lorelai couldn't be happier.

She wore it all Thursday and Friday and Saturday after her birthday party (More on that later).

Well my mom liked it so much and I had fabric left over so she asked me to make on for Bekah. Desmond is the one who actually likes to help cook and will walk around the house carrying a box of brownie mix saying, "Wanna make it? A- brownies from the box, please?" So I felt like I needed to make him one too.

Cute stuff right? Now I need to find an apron pattern for myself :) I love aprons!

This is where I picked up the download/instructions.

P.S. Stacey I misplaced the lemon cupcake instructions. As soon as I find it I'll pass it over to you!

Cupcakes!!!

I've been having a lot of fun with cupcakes lately and I am getting pretty adventurous with the flavors I've been trying. Here they are!

S'mores Cupcakes
My thoughts on the cupcakes: Fabulous! In the future I will for go the graham cracker cake batter and instead only using the super delicious graham cracker topping. I also want to make Marshmallow frosting for the top.


Raspberry White Chocolate Cupcakes and Frosting
Super super sweet, the cupcakes were really much more muffin-esque than cupcake. In the future I will probably just use regular vanilla cupcakes with the rasp/whtchoc frosting. I think that'll be perfect. I'm also thinking I'd like to try this using strawberries.

Lemon Cupcakes

I chose to do this cupcake because I wanted to continue down the path of fruity flavors and my dad is a big fan of lemon bars. They were a huge hit! My dad doesn't super love many things but he really loved these cupcakes. The thing that really put them over the top was the uber yummy lemon/cream cheese frosting. After the cupcakes came out of the oven and cooled a couple of minutes I injected some of the frosting directly in the middle, ho ho style and then piped the rest of the frosting on top. Over the top goodness!

Lorelai's birthday is coming up this Saturday so there will be some more cupcake awesome coming soon!

Bekah is Turning 8!

Bekah is turning eight at the end of next month and I'm gearing up for her baptism. I love the poem about the Three White Dresses and I want to make sure Rebekah and my little girl (and any future little girls) have all three of their white dresses.

This is the pattern I am plaaning on using

I am going to do the long sleeves of the first dress and the skirt and sash of the second. I'm pretty excited but I'm having a hard time getting my parents to pick up on the importance of getting started now!

I've got to make the dress

I've got to take pictures of her in the dress

I've got to sweet talk Emily into making the pics into an invitation for me

I've got to reserve the font and plan out the desert table

It's not that big a deal but it is all stuff that needs to get done a few weeks ahead of time.

I know its been a long time since I've blogged and I've got several things to tell every one about. I think I'm going to vent about cupcakes next. Lets see if I manage to blog again within the week.

Introducing Two Firsts!

Bada bum bada bum bada bum bum!!!

Presenting the first ever Large Sized Scripture Case!

The USC case is regular sized and there to give you an idea of the dimension.

Now an other first wrapped into this scripture case is the outer fabric is a faux leather. I've been thinking of ideas for making scripture cases for grown up guys. The football fabrics are very popular but I've thought that maybe an adult wouldn't want a scripture case screaming his interest but maybe he would like to show his colors in a more refined way. So here it is...
Broncos on the inside. I love how it turned out. I can't wait until it gets unwrapped at Christmas!

Happy Christmas Everyone!

Lisa

Gratitude

I can't seem to organize my thoughts into a blog. I've got so much to get out but at the moment I just don't know how. Brett's Grandpa Peterson, our sealer at our wedding, passed away during the night last night. Brett had a special relationship with him and I am so grateful for the Plan of Happiness :)

Bella Vista Craft Fair

What a learning experience! A fun one at that. I think I may be a little bit addicted.

It was fun driving up to grandmas house the night before and spending the night.

For the past 3 weeks I've been tucking Brett into bed and staying up late to work work work. Lorelai and I left for grandmas at 8 pm, after dark, and I was really worried about my ability to stay awake driving alone in those conditions so I stopped at Panda Express and bought a Dr Pepper, bom bom bom! But it did the trick! I made it safely to Grandmas just after 10 PM and was completely wired for the next two hours. I did manage to get to bed at about midnight thirty and got four hours of sleep before my big day. Poor Emily though, didn't get to bed until 2:30 or so trying to finish her last massive wave of bags.

All the same we still got up and met a block away from the school on time. We dropped Ems car off in the parking lot of the near by Beverly's (only appropriate) and joined the progression of mini vans, mondo vans, and massive trailers pulling into the school. We were directed around a bit until we found our spot and got to start setting up. The event didn't start until 8 and we were ready at 7. So Em and I sat down in the freezing cold to finish up some hand sewing. Fortunately the bags provided a make shift blanket so I didn't completely turn into a Popsicle. Em had 2 sweaters on and still was too cold to tie effective knots with out much much effort and hand rubbing together. Note to self, when the forecast says high 70's bring a jacket anyway until the sun comes up doggoneit.

We enjoyed watching passersby and the few sales we got were fun too. The morning was much busier and pretty much right off the bat Emily sold one of her bags. I sold a pettiskirt and a bag and a few smaller items. Then we sat around while Emily nearly passed out from exhaustion and customer after customer came by and toyed with our emotions. If I had a dollar for every time someone came by and exclaimed over the cuteness of my pettiskirts and then didn't buy one I'd be rich out of my mind and Emily would be the same with her bags. In the end someone came by and bought the whole Halloween out fit pettiskirt and shirt.

During the show we were invited to 3 more craft fairs and will definitely be going to 2 of them, plus another we had already planned on. Expect to hear more about it in the future!

Unfortunately I don't have pics from the fair yet but you can expect those in the near future as well :)

The Missing Bag

I'm freezing, tired and sore.

For the first time in a few weeks I got up and ran this morning. Ow! It was hard. My leg muscles were totally stoked and loving the exercise but my diaphragm and core muscles were suffering.

My poor body slipping into out of shape-ness, I'm glad I got up and ran and I hope, even though tonight is going to be just as late a night as the last 3 weeks, I will get up and run again tomorrow.

I'm freezing because I am waiting for the bus to pick up Desmond so I can take a shower. I was perfectly warm while running but when I got into the car afterwards, yikes!

Well for an update, these last few nights have not been frivolous. I've been working my tail off (figuratively) getting ready for this fair on Saturday. I finished 10 bags last night (go me!) and I dropped them off at the hospital so my mom can hand stitch the holes shut while I move on to bigger projects.

I just can't see myself mass producing bags this way again. I really like to do them one at a time. I like being able to listen to the impressions I get as I am sewing, the inspirations I get to make each piece its own kinda special. The 10 bags I made are nice but I'm not attached to any of them in anyway and I really don't like that. Next time I'll just have to pace myself better :)

I have 2 pettiskirts done, 4 halfway done and all the fabric cut out to finish the partials as well as the 3 pettiskirts I haven't even started. I should be able to get all of that done today. That is the first part of my two fold plan. The second thing I want to accomplish tonight is to get the fabric cut out for the American Girl skirts so I can sew those up tomorrow. Then I'll be done!

Good thing to because I leave for Sacramento tomorrow night. The fair is the day after tomorrow!! I can't believe its here already! I'm not quite excited yet. I probably will be when the skirts are done but I still have too much on my mind.

I'm off to re thread my serger (it's not scary, I love it!!) and serg my day away! Wish me luck.